August 6, 2014 / Front Page

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The New York Steelheads Gold baseball team, which includes Amityville Little League baseball player Bryan Nifenecker, won the Boys of Summer Nationals Championship along with his teammates and coaches this year. The game was played Sat., Aug. More...

The Amityville Rotary Club held its annual Gala in June, raising thousands of dollars to help provide children from Third World countries life-saving heart surgery. The event was held at Chateau La Mer in Lindenhurst with approximately 200 peop More...

Babylon Town Supervisor Rich Schaffer and Deputy Supervisor Tony Martinez recently joined with fellow Town officials to celebrate recent improvements made to three of the Town’s recreation facilities as part of the Town’s 2014 Parks Impro More...

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Transformation is the second part of the equation in severe cases of dog abuse or neglect. Removing a dog from harm’s way is only the beginning of the rescue. Here are two remarkable transformations. More...

Over the next weeks, we are going to talk about the “invisible” people and diverse hamlets of Long Island! The early European settlers built their communities around a green and Amityville (known as West Neck) was no different. More...

The following is a list of public meetings and special events for the coming week. Readers should know that meetings are subject to change without notice. THURSDAY, August 7 •Amityville Rotary weekly meeting: 8 a.m. More...

Like Pharrell, we were happy yesterday when we saw a crew out working on the perimeter of the Brunswick Hospital property.The workers were clearing out and up the debris that was caught behind the fencing there, a lot of it tossed by thoughtless peop More...

With the summer season in full swing, the risk of contracting mosquito-borne infections like West Nile virus, a disease transmitted from birds to mosquitoes that can cause encephalitis and other health problems, dramatically increases. More...

“I am here to support these people; it’s as simple as that.” That’s how Mike Vulpis described why, dressed in a red, white and blue shirt, he was at Babylon Town Hall to cheer on the Wounded Warriors and those who were t More...

Longtime Massapequa resident, Margaret (Nanie) Broschart died May 20, 2014 at the age of 95. Born in Brooklyn on Nov. 20, 1918 to Irish immigrant parents Anthony and Mary Palmer, she was always proud of her Irish heritage. Mrs. More...

A memorial service for Arthur Michael Devine, a graduate of Amityville Memorial High School and lifelong Amityville resident, will be held at the Faith Deliverance Christian Center, 3444 Great Neck Rd., Amityville on Thurs., Aug. 14. Mr. More...